A Light Shadow

Hiding in Plain Sight

Surviving powerful, oppressive forces requires creativity and stamina. Peoples have been doing this for generation upon generation throughout the world.

The tendency for these forces to arise and persistently unleash their attachment to power upon the world is dauntingly consistent and painfully destructive.

I saw early on that my personal condition was a reflection to the whole. That while I was terribly alone, I was not unique. The oppression of my childhood was essentially the same condition mirrored throughout the society. This prevalence made it particularly difficult to maintain my own mind, my own consciousness, as I was very much alone and unique in my view and understanding.

I had to hold space for my sense of self, for my awareness, be my own protector, all the while keeping it hidden for many, many years.

This is very difficult to do. The influence of powerful forces on the psyche are complex and subtle, as is time. People end up quite easily divorced from themselves, split in two, believing one thing while being another and quite unconscious of the condition. This split is intentional, it is the point. The split is what makes people particularly manipulable.

People also highly underestimate the power of propaganda. Most people are far less individual in their thinking then they would like to believe. So I have made a lifelong study of this phenomena and experimented with the effects of different strategies on the condition.

The experiment continues, it does not have an end. It unfolds more and more as things occur and tests become conclusive.

One very important practice, in my experience, which informs the way I communicate, is to simply observe and become aware of things as they are.

We can be purposeful and we can recognize our own authority, however, these things are revealed in the present moment and do not require power to be true.